REPUBLICA OF ECUADOR

INTERVENTION OF

SIR MINISTER OF OUTER RELATIONS OF ECUADOR,
DOCTOR HEINZ MÓELLER FREILE ,

IN THE CONFERENCE ON MEASURES TO FACILITATE THE ENTRANCE IN
VIGOR OF THE TREATY OF PROHIBICIÚN COMPLETES OF THE NUCLEAR TESTS.

NEW YORK, 12 OF NOVEMBER OF 2001

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Sir President:

Like Latin American, he excessively pleases to see to me preside over it our works. I am sure that it will know to lead them with his recognized intelligence and success.

Without no doubt, the disarmament is the most suitable way to obtain to the consolidation of international La Paz and the security, and the nuclear disarmament turns out high-priority to go to the goal, still distant, of the general disarmament and complete under effective international control. For that reason in the Declaration of the Millenium our Government and Chiefs of State accepted to undertake in the urgent task of eliminating the weapons of mass destruction, in individual the nuclear weapons.

Before the danger which they involve the nuclear weapons for the same sobreexperience of the humanity, by his brutal one to be able of destruction, to lack all moral justification, and by its highest cost, the United Nations have turned to this question into center of their debates and its elimination has been and is the expression of the aspirations of all the loving towns of La Paz.

The disarmament and the not-proliferation are essential factors of the international security and bases fundamental of La Paz on century XXI. a general disarmament and complete under strict and effective control it constitutes the greater and high-priority objective in the matter of international policy, inescapable condition for a more stable world and more surely. One of its fundamental principles must continue being the necessity to reduce the excessive military expenses, in order that the countries can assign additional resources to the economic and social development.

In this important scope, the international community has undertaken in encouraging advances, incorporating measured of control and monitoring of world-wide reach. The Treaty of Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Tests, understood like a real measurement of disarmament and like an additional tool in the field of the proliferation, is not not only the culmination of 40 years of efforts to try to eliminate such tests, that they only serve to the improvement and production as new arms, while they poison the medio.ambiente and they attempt against the health and the life of important human groups. Its possible renewal would mean the aim of the disarmament and the not-proliferation, systems that have been constructed in decades of patient negotiations.

The significant number of signatory states of the TPCE that ascends at the present time to 161, of which is encouraging 79 have ratified it. Nevertheless, the Treaty will only take effect 180 days after the date in which all the 44 enumerated states have deposited the ratification instruments in their annexed 2. Three of these states not yet have subscribed it and 13 have still not ratified it, including nuclear powers, whose entailment to the Treaty is determining in the future of the disarmament and the nuclear not-proliferation. In such virtue he is urgent to formulate a new call and to exhort them to that they accelerate his legal and constitutional procedures oriented to formalize his participation in this international instrument. Meanwhile, it is essential that all the states observe a strict moratorium of the nuclear tests.

With the intention of observing the fulfillment of the Treaty, the same instrument established a verification regime, that includes a System the International of Monitoring, that as well contemplates the establishment of control facilities, indicated in the Annexed I to the Protocol of the Treaty. In the case of Ecuador, such facilities will be located in the Galápagos Islands. The ample reach of the System the International of Monitoring is reflected of the will of all the countries to fortify the policies and actions related to the disarmament, through binding systems of global character. Ecuador supports the establishment of this system of international control and the reach of the TPCE. In this context it has adopted pertinent the previous measures in the internal scope destined to the creation of the National Authority of Ecuador of the Treaty. One is constituted the Interinstitucional Committee already, presided over by the Ministry of Outer Relations as mechanism of consultation and permanent supervision.

The ample collaboration of my country with the Technical Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission of the TPCE has been fruitful, as it was demonstrated during the visit of the Technical Mission of the Secretary, made in last May, during which the inspection of the places of location in the Galápagos Islands took place. With this opportunity, Ecuador reiterates desire to continue cooperating with the preparatory measures for its participation in the System the International of Monitoring.
 

Sir President:

Ecuador subscribed the Treaty of Complete Prohibition of Nuclear Tests the 24 of September of 1996. In agreement with his new Political Letter, it obtained the previous and favorable opinion of the Court of Constitutional Guarantees, and in the course of the previous week the National Congress approved it. In such virtue the Gentleman President of the Republic subscribed, immediately, the ratification decree, whose instrument, with singular approval, I came to deposit it this same morning before the General Secretariat of the United Nations as a concrete step of the Ecuadorian contribution for the entrance process in vigor of the Treaty of Complete Prohibition of the Nuclear Tests, and like one he proves more of his foreign policy in support to the detailed stripping of a weapon and complete, in strict adhesion to the intentions and principles of the Letter of the Nations United on the maintenance of international La Paz and of the security.